It’s not just C8 that will disappear… 2025 will be a year of big changes for TNT. Other historic channels will stop broadcasting and two small new ones will appear.
The year 2025 will mark an unprecedented upheaval in your TV program, in particular in the TNT schedule. Many emblematic channels will in fact cease broadcasting, making way for new arrivals. Among the main victims of this big clean-up, we find C8 and NRJ12. Last July, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom), responsible for allocating and controlling frequencies, announced that the two TNT channels were not being renewed and would stop.
A date has even been set: February 28, 2025, the two channels will cease broadcasting after respectively 11 and 17 years of existence. A shock for their teams who have been trying for several months to appeal the decision, in vain. Another notable departure is that of Canal+, which has chosen to withdraw all of its pay channels from DTT in 2025: Canal+, Canal+ Cinéma, Canal+ Sport and Planète+. At the end of the year, the group denounced an “increasingly restrictive tax and regulatory environment”. Its TNT subscribers will have to switch to other reception modes such as satellite or ADSL.
And that’s not all, the local channel BFM Paris, launched in 2016 by Altice and broadcast on TNT channel 30, will also stop in 2025, due to not having found its economic balance. Its 27 journalists on permanent contracts should be reclassified on the group’s other channels, BFMTV in the lead. Regional versions such as BFM Lyon or BFM Grand Littoral, however, are not threatened.
Arcom has already selected two new entrants to complete channels 8 and 12 of TNT: OFTV and RéelsTV. OFTV is a project led by the Sipa-Ouest-France group. The channel intends to “highlight the territories” with programming focused on local information, but also entertainment, series and French cinema. Its main studio will also be located in Rennes, and not in Paris like most of its competitors.
OFTV will broadcast from March 1 or September 1, 2025 at the latest. What can we expect from a black screen on one of the channels released at the end of February, as Cyril Hanouna denounced? Not quite, as explained by the Actu.fr websitebut it’s just like. Unless Arcom decides to completely review the channels for several channels, from BFMTV to LCI, which would still be a huge upheaval.
For its part, RéelsTV is a project emanating from Czech magnate Daniel Kretinsky, who already owns numerous media in France such as Elle, Marianne and the Loopsider site. The channel will focus on documentaries (50% of its schedule), debates and cultural programs. She also highlights her desire to offer a “peaceful” tone, far from clashes and controversies. Its launch is scheduled for March 1, 2025.
It remains to be seen whether these two new players will manage to find their audience and establish themselves permanently in the landscape. To do this, they will have to convince advertisers burned by TNT’s declining audiences, at a time when consumption on streaming platforms continues to grow…